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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






2. Transit of Venus on June 11.






3. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






4. Return of Halley's Comet.






5. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.






6. The Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (comprising Saudi Arabia - Oman - United Arab Emirates - Bahrain - Kuwait and Qatar) hope to establish monetary union in this year. FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Brazil. 34th America's C






7. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






8. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






9. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






10. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






11. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






12. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






13. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






14. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






15. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






16. Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest known spheroid orbiting the Sun.






17. Transit of Venus.






18. On August 1 - Mercury occults Regulus (last occultation of Regulus by Mercury was on August 13 - 364 BC).






19. 99942 Apophis has a 1 in 250000 chance of hitting Earth on April 19.






20. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






21. Transit of Mercury.






22. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






23. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






24. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






25. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






26. The M1 Abrams will be retired from service.






27. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






28. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






29. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






30. Cosmic Call 1 will reach its destination - the star Gliese 777.






31. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






32. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






33. Triple conjunction Mars






34. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






35. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






36. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






37. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






38. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






39. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






40. Triple conjunction Mars






41. At 16-08 UTC on July 29 - Mercury will occult Mars.






42. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






43. Triple conjunction Mars






44. Triple conjunction Mars






45. Triple conjunction Mars






46. Transit of Mercury.






47. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.






48. The One country - two systems model between China and Hong Kong will terminate in this year.






49. The Message From Earth will reach Gliese 581.






50. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.